HealthSource partners with med school to train community physicians

HealthSource of Ohio is joining forces with an osteopathic medical school in Arizona in an innovative partnership to train community physicians. HealthSource will team up with the A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine to educate tomorrow's doctors using a new curriculum to train doctors who want to practice in medically-underserved communities. HealthSource will host a small group of students and a medical school faculty member during the second, third and fourth year of medical training, allowing them to learn in a real health care setting and see the connections between theory and practice.
 
HealthSource, which runs health care centers in five Southern Ohio counties, will serve as sort of a "Community Campus" for students and faculty, where they'll continue to learn the sciences with medical school faculty and get involved in practice examples that will enforce and validate the classroom work. "With local knowledge and connections gained as a student, these future physicians will be better prepared to serve our community," says Kim Patton, CEO of HealthSource. The first group of students is scheduled to arrive this summer.

Writer: David Holthaus
Source: Lisa Parker, HealthSource